IEEE ... International Conference on Rehabilitation Robotics : [proceedings]
Jul 1, 2017
Hemiplegia patients have complete paralysis of half their body, and encounter many challenges in living an independent life. Rehabilitation of the lower body is more important than that of the upper body for independent living; thus, recovering upper...
IEEE ... International Conference on Rehabilitation Robotics : [proceedings]
Jul 1, 2017
Motor dexterity assessment is regularly performed in rehabilitation wards to establish patient status and automatization for such routinary task is sought. A system for automatizing the assessment of motor dexterity based on the Fugl-Meyer scale and ...
IEEE ... International Conference on Rehabilitation Robotics : [proceedings]
Jul 1, 2017
The guidelines for enhancing robot-assisted training for post-stroke survivors head towards increasing exercise realism and variability; in particular lower limb rehabilitation needs the patient to feel challenged to adapt his locomotion and dynamic ...
IEEE ... International Conference on Rehabilitation Robotics : [proceedings]
Jul 1, 2017
To restore locomotor function following spinal cord injury the disrupted descending supraspinal drive needs to be re-connected to regions caudal to the injury. Robotic gait training aims to facilitate recovery by stimulating the proprioceptive networ...
IEEE ... International Conference on Rehabilitation Robotics : [proceedings]
Jul 1, 2017
Gait training robots are useful for changing gait patterns and decreasing risk of trip. Previous research has reported that decreasing duration of the assistance or guidance of the robot is beneficial for efficient gait training. Although robotic int...
IEEE ... International Conference on Rehabilitation Robotics : [proceedings]
Jul 1, 2017
Robot-assisted gait training is becoming increasingly common to support recovery of walking function after neurological injury. How to formulate controllers capable of promoting desired features in gait, i.e. goals, is complicated by the limited unde...
IEEE ... International Conference on Rehabilitation Robotics : [proceedings]
Jul 1, 2017
Gait asymmetry as a consequence of hemiparesis is known as a serious long-term disability, where typical compensatory gait movements are used by stroke subjects in order to cope with their daily activities. This study presents a gait symmetry trainin...
Zhongguo xiu fu chong jian wai ke za zhi = Zhongguo xiufu chongjian waike zazhi = Chinese journal of reparative and reconstructive surgery
May 15, 2017
OBJECTIVE: To explore the effect of different intensity treadmill training on the repair of micro-injured Achilles tendon induced by collagenase in rats.
INTRODUCTION: The evidence underlying robotic body weight supported treadmill training in patients with spinal cord injury remains poorly characterized.
Studies in health technology and informatics
Jan 1, 2017
In the rehabilitation treatment for at-home patients, it is not only costly for a patient to hire a professional therapist or personal trainer, but also time consuming for a therapist or trainer to visit all the patients. To improve the situation, we...